05604nam 2200697 450 991046493010332120200903223051.090-272-7056-2(CKB)3710000000097418(EBL)1659971(SSID)ssj0001131882(PQKBManifestationID)11733846(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001131882(PQKBWorkID)11148880(PQKB)11004874(MiAaPQ)EBC1659971(Au-PeEL)EBL1659971(CaPaEBR)ebr10853341(CaONFJC)MIL597353(OCoLC)875429577(EXLCZ)99371000000009741820140412h20142014 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrCognitive grammar in literature /Chloe Harrison [and three others]Amsterdam, Netherlands ;Philadelphia, Pennsylvania :John Benjamins Publishing Company,2014.©20141 online resource (269 p.)Linguistic Approaches to Literature,1569-3112 ;Volume 17Description based upon print version of record.90-272-3404-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cognitive Grammar in Literature; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; List of contributors; Part I.Narrative fiction; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; 1. The practice of literary linguistics; 2. Cognitive Grammar: An overview; 2.1 Constructions; 2.3 Specificity; 2.4 Prominence; 2.5 Action chains; 2.6 Dynamicity; 2.7 Perspective; 2.8 Discourse; 3. Literary adaptations from CG; 3.1 Fictive simulation; 3.2 Ambience; 3.3 Point of view and consciousness; 3.4 De- and re-familiarisation; 3.5 Ethics: Responsibility and ascription; 4. The state of the art; War, Worlds and cognitive Grammar1. The grammatical battleground 2. The grammar of anticipation; 3. The grammar of action; 4. The grammar of ambience; 5. The grammar of literature; Construal and comics; 1. Introduction; 2. Fun Home - a Gothic autobiography; 3. Construal in Cognitive Grammar; 4. Construal in Fun Home; 4.1 Profiling; 4.2 Profiling in Fun Home; 4.3 Viewing arrangements; 4.4 Viewing arrangements in Fun Home; 5. The current discourse space model; 6. Conclusion; Attentional windowing in David Foster Wallace's 'The Soul Is Not a Smithy'; 1. 'The Soul Is Not a Smithy'; 2. Windows, profiles, splices3. The cognitive turn vs. structuralism 4. Discourse event frames; 5. Micro- and meso-windows; 6. Conceptual splicing; 7. Quantitative/ qualitative specificity; 8. Conclusion; Resonant Metaphor in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go; 1. Text-driven cognition; 2. Metaphor, cognition and text; 3. 'It seemed like we were holding on to each other because that was the only way to stop us being swept away into the night': Analysing the texture and resonance of simile; 3.1 Cognitive Grammar and modality: Fictionalising the ground3.2 Cognitive Grammar and the force dynamics of modal similes: 'seemed like' versus 'was like'3.3 The source domain as literary figure: Simile and resonance; 4. Conclusion: More than mapping; Constructing a text world for The Handmaid's Tale; 1. World construal; 2. Structuring reality; 3. Building text worlds; 4. Reading The Handmaid's Tale; 5. Simulating experience; Point of view in translation; 1. Preliminaries; 2. POV; 3. POV in Alice in Wonderland; 4. Grammar; 4.1 Reference; 4.2 Processes; 4.3 Epistemic modality; 4.4 Units and constructions; 4.5 Iconicity; 5. The grammar of paratext6. Conclusions Part II.Studies of poetry; Profiling the flight of 'The Windhover'; 1. Introduction: Literature and Cognitive Grammar; 2. Profiling Hopkins' 'The Windhover'; Foregrounding the foregrounded; Conceptual proximity and the experience of war in Siegfried Sassoon's 'A working party'; 1. Introduction; 2. 'A working party' and the importance of 1916; 3. The distribution of -ing forms; 4. The third person pronoun 'he'; 5. Reference point relationships and action chains; 6. Conclusion; 1. The poem; 2. The song-situation; 3. Tense and aspect in Hungarian; 4. Taylor on tense and aspect5. Greimas and Courtés on aspectualisationThis is the first book to present an account of literary meaning and effects drawing on our best understanding of mind and language in the form of a Cognitive Grammar. The contributors provide exemplary analyses of a range of literature from science fiction, dystopia, absurdism and graphic novels to the poetry of Wordsworth, Hopkins, Sassoon, Balassi, and Dylan Thomas, as well as Shakespeare, Chaucer, Barrett Browning, Whitman, Owen and others. The application of Cognitive Grammar allows the discussion of meaning, translation, ambience, action, reflection, multimodality, empathy, experience anLinguistic approaches to literature ;Volume 17.Cognitive grammarDiscourse analysis, LiteraryCreativity (Linguistics)LiteratureHistory and criticismElectronic books.Cognitive grammar.Discourse analysis, Literary.Creativity (Linguistics)LiteratureHistory and criticism.415Harrison ChloeMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910464930103321Cognitive grammar in literature2170391UNINA05197nam 22006854a 450 991101881280332120170815123142.09786610343713978111920118211192011879781280343711128034371097804717898950471789895(CKB)1000000000355405(EBL)252326(OCoLC)68968460(SSID)ssj0000150737(PQKBManifestationID)11153760(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000150737(PQKBWorkID)10281096(PQKB)10729357(MiAaPQ)EBC252326(CaSebORM)9780471681717(OCoLC)792930242(OCoLC)ocn792930242 (EXLCZ)99100000000035540520050909d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEvaluating hedge fund performance /Vinh Q. 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John Wileyc20061 online resource (304 p.)Wiley finance seriesDescription based upon print version of record.9780471681717 0471681717 Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-275) and index.Evaluating Hedge Fund Performance; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: A Primer on Hedge Funds; Chapter 1: The Market Goes Up Forever?; FLAWS OF LONG-TERM INVESTING; WEALTH-REDUCING EFFECTS OF VOLATILITY; DIVERSIFICATION TO REDUCE RISKS; LONG-TERM INVESTING WITH LOW-CORRELATION ASSETS AND DOWNSIDE PROTECTION; Chapter 2: It's the Risk, Not the Return; NOT NECESSARILY HIGHER RETURNS; CONSISTENCY OF RETURNS; LOW CORRELATION WITH THE STOCK MARKET; PORTFOLIO EFFECTS OF HEDGE FUNDS; ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENTS IN UNCERTAIN MARKETS; WEALTH PRESERVATIONPROSPECTIVE LONG-TERM RETURNS AND RISKS OF STOCKSChapter 3: Going for the Gold; SIZE OF THE HEDGE FUND INDUSTRY; INVESTORS IN HEDGE FUNDS; WHAT ARE HEDGE FUNDS?; HEDGE FUND STRATEGIES; PERFORMANCE OF HEDGE FUNDS; Part II: Evaluating and Selecting Hedge Funds; Chapter 4: The Skewed Statistics of Hedge Fund Returns; PERCEPTION OF RISKS: NUMBERS AND REALITY; GAMING THE SHARPE RATIO; ALPHA: HOLY GRAIL OR WIZARD OF OZ?; RETURNS OF HEDGE FUNDS REVISITED; BENEFITS OF HEDGE FUNDS REVISITED; CONCLUSION; Chapter 5: Evaluating Hedge Fund Strategies; WHICH STRATEGIES?; IS IT UNCORRELATED, REALLY?HOW NEUTRAL IS MARKET NEUTRALITY?MARKET RISKS OF HEDGE FUND STRATEGIES; LEVERAGE AND HEDGE FUND RETURNS; LOW CORRELATIONS: THE GOOD AND THE POOR; CONCLUSION; Chapter 6: Picking the Winners; SOURCING HEDGE FUNDS; PRELIMINARY SCREENING; STRATEGY ALPHA; ALPHA GENERATION AND MANAGER TALENT; DUE DILIGENCE; RISK AND PERFORMANCE MATRIX; BEYOND DUE DILIGENCE; CONCLUSION; Chapter 7: Constructing a Portfolio of Hedge Funds; EFFECTIVE DIVERSIFICATION TO REDUCE RISKS; HOW MUCH IN HEDGE FUNDS?; HOW MANY HEDGE FUNDS?; KNOW YOUR OBJECTIVES; HEDGE FUND PORTFOLIOS IN PRACTICE: CASE EXAMPLESQUANTIFY YOUR JUDGMENTCONCLUSION; Part III: Evaluating Performance and Risks; Chapter 8: Evaluating the Performance of Your Hedge Funds; HOW WELL IS YOUR HEDGE FUND PORTFOLIO?; BASIC CONCEPTS OF PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT; ISSUES DIRECTLY RELATED TO HEDGE FUNDS; MARKET AND HEDGE FUND INDEXES; KNOW YOUR HEDGE FUND MANAGERS OR KEY DRIVERS OF RETURNS; HEDGE FUND BENCHMARKS IN PRACTICE; EVALUATING PERFORMANCE: A HEURISTIC PROCESS; CONCLUSION; Chapter 9: Buyers Beware; THE MANY FACETS OF HEDGE FUNDS' RISKS; EVALUATING THE RISKS OF YOUR HEDGE FUNDS; "LEFT TAIL" RISKS AND OTHER QUANTITIESONGOING RISK MANAGEMENT: RISK AND PERFORMANCE MATRIXCONCLUSION; Chapter 10: Instant Diversification: Funds of Funds; DIVERSIFICATION BENEFITS OF FUNDS OF FUNDS; FEES AND THE PRICE OF ACCESS; REDUCED LIQUIDITY; REDUCED TRANSPARENCY; GENERATING ALPHA: PORTFOLIO REBALANCING; TYPES OF FUNDS OF FUNDS; PERFORMANCE OF FUNDS OF FUNDS; INVESTING WITH FUNDS OF FUNDS; CONCLUSION; Chapter 11: A Practical Guide to Investing in Hedge Funds; INFORMATION ON HEDGE FUNDS; Notes; IndexA comprehensive look at hedge fund performance issues In Evaluating Hedge Fund Performance, Dr. Vinh Tran gives readers the information they need to construct an efficient hedge fund portfolio based on their own level of knowledge. From evaluating hedge funds to picking the winners, Dr. Tran covers some of the most important issues related to this flexible investment vehicle. Evaluating Hedge Fund Performance takes the standard hedge fund book to a new level by detailing how to manage the risk of hedge funds and offering the best methods to evaluate and monitor heWiley finance series.Hedge fundsUnited StatesHedge funds332.645Tran Vinh Quang1946-1842575MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9911018812803321Evaluating hedge fund performance4422744UNINA